Management Decision: Volume 14 Issue 1

The Impact of Inflation on Corporate Financial Performance

John Hull, Bill Alexander

Computer models can provide fast and efficient ways of assessing the impact of different rates of inflation on a company's future performance. This article describes the steps in…

Behavioural Aspects of Management Accounting

D.M.C. Jones

The aim of systems of financial control, installed and operated by management accountants, is to supply managers with relevant information which is up‐to‐date and sufficiently…

Test Marketing: Go National or Go Broke?

Francis Buttle

Many consumer and industrial goods manufacturers practise test marketing before launching innovative products on a national or wider scale. The commercial value of such testing is…

FINANCIAL & LEGAL NOTES

Desmond Goch

Sandilands on Inflation Accounting The long‐awaited publication of the Sandilands Committee's Report on Inflation Accounting gave the signal for the resumption of hostilities in…

Marketing—A Success Factor in Industrial Innovation

Roy Rothwell

The output of scientific and technological knowledge and invention is growing at an ever‐increasing rate, technological innovations are becoming increasingly complex and…

Dualistic Theory of the Processes of Management Learning

Cary L. Cooper

Over the years there have been numerous attempts in social psychology to examine the process of influence between change agents (e.g. parents, teachers, clinicians) and objects of…

The Use of Case Studies in the Integration of Research and Teaching in Management Education

Graham H. Ray

The objective of managment education for the potential or practising manager can be regarded as the development of skills of diagnosis and application in situations that are…